Publications
Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi. Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context. In Proc. of SIGdial’10, Tokyo, Japan, 2010.
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Manuel Kirschner. The BoB Dialogue Corpus. Technical Report KRDB10-4, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, 2010.
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Raffaella Bernardi, Manuel Kirschner and Zorana Ratkovic. Context Fusion: The Role of Discourse Structure and Centering Theory. In Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10), Valletta, Malta. 2010.
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Raffaella Bernardi and Manuel Kirschner. From artificial questions to real user interaction logs: Real challenges for Interactive Question Answering systems. In Proc. of Workshop on Web Logs and Question Answering (WLQA’10), Valletta, Malta. 2010.
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Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi, Marco Baroni and Le Thanh Dinh. Analyzing Interactive QA Dialogues using Logistic Regression Models. In Proc. of XIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA’09), Reggio Emilia, Italy. 2009.
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Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi. Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning. In Proc. of NAACL HLT 2009: Student Research Workshop, Boulder, CO. 2009.
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Raffaella Bernardi and Manuel Kirschner. Context Modeling for IQA: The Role of Tasks and Entities. In Proc. of Workshop for Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ’08), Manchester, UK. 2008.
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Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi. Context Modeling for IQA: The Role of Tasks and Entities. Poster presented at LCT student session in Bolzano, 15. May 2008 (unpublished).
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Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi. An Empirical View on IQA Follow-up Questions. In Proc. of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium. 2007.
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Manuel Kirschner. Applying a Focus Tree Model of Dialogue Context
to Interactive Question Answering. In Proc. of the ESSLLI’07 Student Session, Dublin, Ireland. 2007.
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Manuel Kirschner. The BoB IQA system: A Domain Expert’s Perspective. In Proc. of the 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’07), Rovereto, Italy. 2007.
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Manuel Kirschner. Building a Multi-lingual Interactive Question-Answering System for the Library Domain. In Proc. of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Brandial’06), Potsdam, Germany. 2006.
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Harald Hüning, Manuel Kirschner, Fritz Class, André Berton, and Udo Haiber. Embedding Grammars into Statistical Language Models. In Proc. of Interspeech’05, pages 1313–1316, Lisbon, Portugal. 2005.
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